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In the last 3-5 years? Which models?

Did this project go ahead, Mercutio?

Nano Hummingbird Beyond awesome.

So you see yourself as an autistic savant? Thanks for that. I think this additional information will make forum interaction a little bit easier for those of us who walk a somewhat straighter path.

Cheers Howell. ;) To answer my own question, yes, you need to set Default Gateway on each PC to point to the PC that the phone is connected to. Because DHCP has probably assigned the router as DNS server, you also need to enter a suitable DNS server address. On my router, you can just enter...

Jeebus, that's enough to make anyone paranoid. Doug, thanks for your efforts. Just remember, we're all firmly 20 feet behind you. ;)

Howell, so does that mean just set each client's Default Gateway to the PC that's hosting the phone?

We frequently want to watch video at higher than native resolution, for example DVD at 1680x1050/1920x1080/1920x1200. Compared to an actual HD TV, I'm not satisfied with the results we're seeing. My first choice of player is VLC, mainly because it's far less irritating to use than many others...

T-shirt time?

There is actually a scientific basis for that number. 20/20 vision is assumed to be able to resolve details down to one arcminute; that distance correlates to 1080 arcminutes and therefore should yield maximum visible detail. Coincidentally (or not), it also corresponds to a total horizontal...

Solid State Drueding

Presumably due to Sandy Bridge being off the menu, Intel i5 760 has gone up by 15-20% here. It's getting easier and easier to come to the same conclusion as LiamC. Not sure about comparing the AMD X4 640 to the Intel i3. The former only has a quarter of the cache per core so benchmark...

You forgot your sig. ;) Lenovo used to use Samsung SSDs; have they switched or was yours a special case?

80" should just about do it; that's if the couch will be only 20ft away. Unfortunately, I don't know where you'd buy a plasma in that size. The scale points more to a projector, except you've already got lighting problems. Rather than buying a 55" screen, you could save some money by just...

Because I doubt the TV can render "all the usual video and audio formats"? A quick look at Sony (the founder of DLNA) shows that the EX400 and EX500 series don't even have DLNA, and the EX600 and EX700 series can only render MPEG2. AFAIK, that means no HD1080. I think most people wouldn't be...

To put this in perspective, people now hold up laptop keyboards as faster and more comfortable to type on than desktop equivalents. WTF? Laptop keyboards haven't been getting better ...

I've had another session comparing a bunch of different keyboards, and I still disliked almost all of them. After two attempts, I would like to like the MS Arc, but without Home and End keys, it's no better than a laptop. So HTPC only. An MS 3000 keyboard seemed passable, but I would have been...

Thoughts: Ten-foot ceiling, I take it? Anyone in the recliner will have to tilt their head slightly to the left as well as up; could be a strain if the angles are too acute. The recliner needs to be 15ft away to limit the viewing angle to the top of the screen to 20°. Anything over 20ft is...

Amazingly, firmware updates are available, but unfortunately it looks like there was a hardware change. :( The pre-A model hasn't had an update since 2006. Sorry, I feel your pain.

The Panasonic plasma FAQ says the first 100 hours are the vulnerable period for burn-in. After that, it's no different than for CRT (which of course led to the advent of screen savers ...).

The updated CS1762A/CS1764A version fixes this: Aten seems to hold a lot of patents on this sort of stuff. Unless money is an overriding concern, I'd stick with their products.

That Aten looks like it handles DVI-A simultaneously with DVI-D, so you wouldn't need the fancy VGA-DVI converter, just a reverse adapter. If you need to save money, you could try a KVM from PCT; it's about a third of the price and also claims to handle both analog and digital signals through...

How many computers do you need to control? Enterprise-class KVMs can often be cascaded. Aten makes a VGA to DVI converter, which would enable you to use an all-DVI solution. Alternatively, most (but not all) DVI outputs include a VGA signal, so simple adapter plugs would enable you to use them...

What's a "10-key"?

Bathroom: Room that contains a bath. Also a euphemism for toilet to protect delicate American sensibilities. ;) AFAIK, house plans here still label the "smallest room in the house" as "WC", short for the ancient term, "Water Closet". "Lavatory" would be the modern equivalent, although...

True and yet ... Photocopiers will usually eat almost anything, but laser printers may get indigestion with really cheap paper. I imagine it's a function of price, i.e. photocopiers tend to cost a lot more than equivalent single-function laser printers. Also, I wouldn't be comfortable feeding...

That must have been pre-paranoia era, I imagine?

Cheaper, but up to twice as slow as the US (officially 6-8 weeks)? Australian passport charges - extortion at nearly 3 times the cost of Québec, but turnaround is 2 weeks. Another $100 brings it down to 2 days. Unfortunately, I have neither Micropolis drives nor an intimidating physique. :(

Very cool. Has anyone noticed that Lenovo has deleted ALL 13.3" screen models? First the X3xx series, then the Edge 13" - the video for the latter is still on their website. :roll: So you can have either an over-sized netbook ("notbook" from the review) or move straight into a 14". What...

Buck, how do you find the mouse that comes with the MK320? It's probably Logitech's lightest cordless mouse, which is good, but how comfortable is it? I've noticed that mice with deep scalloping on the sides tend to be more comfortable for a wider set of hand types.

I can't seem to find a thread (in the last couple of years at least) that surveys our current likes / dislikes in desktop keyboards. I really resent spending more than $100 for a halfway decent keyboard - $20 should be enough in these days of Chinese manufacture, surely? Why aren't all...

Something wrong with your Google-Fu? No offense, it's just that it's normally exceptional. LCDScreen.com offers a 120 day warranty.

This thread could save someone's ass some day. Thanks to Mercutio for persistence and Will Rickards for spotting the alternative chipset solution. Would be nice if the thread title contained the term "eSATA" ...

Balanced runs were developed to neutralize interference to low level signals over long distances. In short, dynamic microphones in a PA situation. You have high signal levels (1V RMS) and a modest distance (23m). Unless you have industrial machinery in the ceiling, I doubt that you need to set...

Good to hear.

Yeah, they announced it the very next day after Intel went public. They've also explained that the two SATA 3.0 ports are okay. Crickets chirping from Asus, so far.

How did you realize that the instability on two overclocked PCs was attributable to your choice of power supply?

Don't suppose you want to share more info yet?

Amex is either refused or attracts a surcharge from many small businesses here. The usual pattern is that Amex seriously screws them over on some transaction, then they refuse it. Larger businesses are more relaxed (i.e. got a better deal). Amex expects a very high customer churn and spends far...

AFAIK, the Earthwatts 380 is rated for just 28A @12V. The GTX 570 requires 18 of those and the GTX 580 more than 20. Six hard drives takes at least 3A, six RAM modules about another 1A, probably another 1A for the motherboard and I don't know if there's a RAID card in there or not? Leaves 3A...

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Kami, in your first post you said, "No blue screens (although that option is checked ON)". Now that you're a bit further along the path, I'd like to point out that the correct option is "Automatically restart" and it should be cleared, NOT checked. Hope this helps. Incidentally, the two...

You may be able to solve your problem by increasing the voltage to the maximum 1.65V - it worked for Ddrueding and others. This increases the signaling levels and therefore the ability of the circuitry to resolve hi/lo transitions on the bus. Unfortunately, the OCZ staffer has ruined your...

You don't understand the meaning of channel. Each channel has its own driver circuit. Howell postulated that each channel may be able to use parameters distinct from the other channels. Most motherboards allow up to two RAM modules to be connected to each channel. However, this doubles the...

I think we should all be very grateful that Lunar's typing is better than normal right now.

As I expected - but I'm no meteorologist - the large size caused it to collapse pretty fast once it approached land. Serious damage looks to have been largely confined to a couple of small towns (who have had the crap kicked out of them, obviously). I haven't seen any reports yet of house...

Of course not, Australia has used the metric system for more than 40 years. The mph reference was for the old codgers in this forum ... 300 km/h ~ 186 mph ~ 162 knots ~ 83 m/s I just checked and that's >=3 second gusts, BTW. Sustained average speeds over 10 minutes are currently 115 knots or...

Possibly, memory checking utilities are still writing and reading one word at a time. That's hardly stressing RAM and isn't how block data is managed, so perhaps they need to be dragged kicking and screaming out of the nineties and into the modern world? I haven't used one for years because...

There is plenty of 1.5V RAM, it's just that the catalogues are cluttered with fanboy overclock shit, which quite ironically needs 1.65V. Kingston also makes low voltage RAM ("LoVo") that does 1600MHz at 1.25V and 1866MHz at 1.35V. Highly desirable and hard to get. If you buy shit RAM, expect...

Bunker set into a hill perhaps? Housing built in the last 30 years has increasingly high wind ratings the further north you go, so wind damage shouldn't be quite as all-encompassing as you might expect. And the coast is more sparsely populated than many countries, so the death toll won't be in...